Oskar Chmioła / Works and actions
Identity
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Cycle: Reality · Performance 5 of 9
A performance on identity during an evening curated by Oskar Chmioła. Bożena Galant, Kamil Malecki and Tomasz Kubik also presented separate works.
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- Date
- Venue
- Zamek Książąt Pomorskich, Szczecin
Participants and roles
- Oskar Chmioła — performance; evening curator
- Bożena Galant — separate work during the same evening: malinowy chruśniak
- Kamil Malecki — separate work during the same evening: cyrk w walizce. Work in progres
- Tomasz Kubik — separate work during the same evening: 15 minutowy dźwięk
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WHAT IS IDENTITY?
Identity
a performance evening in the small courtyard of the Pomeranian Dukes’ Castle in Szczecin, 04.11.2017
The undertaking posed a question about the essence of identity. What is this identity? Does it form like a snowball? Does it emerge where antagonisms meet? Is it a stigma? Or perhaps a paradigm? Is identity something to be fulfilled like a social injunction, or something to be discovered like a metasocial challenge? What does it mean to be the creator of one’s own identity? Or is identity simply a component of what and how a person loves?
It was an attempt to inspire people to seek out and redefine their own cultural, national, social, spiritual, political, sexual, racial, familial, local, global and collective identity. Is identity not a value that speaks of our level of consciousness as individuals? Should a person fulfil the role of an individual identified with the social group and culture in which they grew up? Should a person rebel against imposed norms identified with their group and culture as factors limiting their freedom? Is a person identified with the Past, or rather with the Future? If with both, can they, as the Present, choose either without going to extremes? Is identity a taste or an axiom? Can identity be a factor that opens us to others? To what extent can one identify without becoming the same?
The performance was presented during the “Performance Evening” curated by Oskar Chmioła. Four presentations by different artists took place that evening; besides Oskar Chmioła:
Bożena Galant — “the raspberry thicket”
She was born in Szczecin in 1957. A graduate in mathematics from the University of Szczecin. In 2017 she completed her studies in painting at the Academy of Art, obtaining a master’s degree in art. In her works she searches for colours, light and shadows, examining their interrelationships. Her output also includes several films addressing social issues and customs. In 2014 she received a scholarship at Muthesius Kunsthochschule in Kiel, Germany. In 2016, the Germans realized and financed her project Magic Mirrors.
Kamil Malecki — “a circus in a suitcase. Work in progress”
Clown, juggler, performer. An advocate of animal-free circus. In his performances he combines himself and his skills to develop a thread connecting him with the audience.
He graduated from Gdańsk University of Technology and is studying Mechanics and Mechanical Engineering at the West Pomeranian University of Technology.
Tomasz Kubik — “15-minute sound”.
a sociologist by profession, a musician and clown by passion. His recent observations on the concept of sadness led him to the performance “15-minute sound”.
WHAT IS IDENTITY?
Identity
a performance evening in the small courtyard of the Pomeranian Dukes’ Castle in Szczecin, 04.11.2017
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